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The guy’s eyes widened even more, and he began to shake his head violently. But Mr. Sokolov immediately pressed the tip of the blade to the man’s throat, and he went still. The guy took shallow breaths as the knife’s edge trailed delicately up his neck. Then, in one swift movement, the knife slashed upward. The man shouted in terror, but only the gag fell away from his face, cleanly sliced in half.
Realizing he wasn’t dead yet, the captive began pleading for his life.
“Don’t do it! I-I’m sorry! I’ll never show my face here again, I swear!” he gasped.
Mr. Sokolov was unmoved. “The time for apologies has long passed.”
“It was just a mistake! I’ll never do it again, please!”
“A mistake happens once. Maybe twice if you’re an idiot,” the powerful man said, bending to lean into the guy’s fearful face. “More than that, and you’ve got yourself a bad habit.”
“I’ve learned my lesson! I’m a changed man!”
Mr. Sokolov laughed, but there was no real mirth in it. His eyes remained steely and cold. He traced the knife along the man’s jawline, never breaking eye contact.
“What a joke. There aren’t enough ‘lessons’ in the world to teach a Baranov common decency,” he hissed.
The color drained from the captive’s face. Mr. Sokolov grinned.
“That’s right. I know who sent you,” he said. “You thought you could slip into the crowd, gather intel, report back to your coward of an Avtoritet, and get a leg up on us. I bet you were proud of this assignment. It’s not every day a worthless grunt like you gets to hang around the Pearl on the boss’s dime, ogling our women and taking up space. But you couldn’t even get that right. Not surprised in the least that a Baranov man can’t hold his liquor.”
“I’m sorry! I never meant to hurt that girl. I just... It got out of hand,” the guy claimed.
“Not only were you spying on us. Not only did you drink too much and cause a scene on multiple occasions, jeopardizing our bottom line. But you had the nerve to lay your hands on one ofourgirls,” the dark-haired man went on. “What did you think? That you could rob her blind, leave her beaten and bruised, and get away with it?”
By now, the captive was tearful. His inevitable fate was closing in on him. Mr. Sokolov pressed the tip of his blade against the man’s throat... hard.
“I know I’m a screw-up, but come on, man!” he blubbered. “Have some mercy!”
“The bouncers here showed you plenty of mercy when they threw your ass out instead of dismembering you piece by piece,” he snarled back coldly. “You’ve had your fun with them. Now it’smyturn.”
The captive seemed delirious with fear. He had rounded the corner, from teary pleading to defiance. He knew he was finished. All that was left now were the final words.
“I should’ve killed that bitch when I had the chance,” he sneered.
Mr. Sokolov narrowed his sharp gaze and pushed the knife harder into the man’s skin, just shy of breaking the surface. “You can take those regrets to the grave, you Baranov bastard. But I have to know... How could you be stupid enough to wander willingly into our territory? You have your own strip clubs to desecrate.”
The captive shrugged and jeered lewdly, “You have better girls. Besides, what’s yours will be ours soon, haven’t you heard?”
The cold-eyed man glared at him with unbridled hatred. “I would sooner die than call the Baranovs family,” he rumbled.
The captive lifted his chin and smirked, exposing his throat for the knife. “Then you’ll die, Mikhail Sokolov,” he tossed back with utter disgust.
A cruel grin spread across Mikhail’s handsome face as he raised the knife.
“You first,” he grunted, and slashed the man’s throat from ear to ear.
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